Impressionisty : Istoriia, kartiny, khudozhniki. Illiustrirovannaia entsiklopediia - Petrovskaia A.A.

The names of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Berta Moriso, Camille Pissarro, the famous Impressionist artists who have changed the history of art forever, are familiar to everyone, but, as a rule, books dedicated to them, are only a number of interesting biographies.
This unique illustrated encyclopedia, written by an employee of the State Hermitage Museum, is not just a set of biographical information about artists, but a broad panorama of that era, an analysis of cultural and historical phenomena that have provided the most influence both the creation of Impressionist paintings and the perception of them by the audience. Particular attention is paid to aspects that were hardly covered in the national literature - the role of women artists in the impressionistic movement, the development of the art market and the activities of the first collectors of Impressionist paintings.
Thanks to rich illustrative material, this book not only introduces the reader to masterpieces of impressionistic painting stored in the world's largest museums and private collections, but also paints a living image of Paris in the second half of the 19th century, where they lived and created Impressionist artists.